Demonstration record

Ghapama

ղափամա

Original: Ghapama

Transliteration · ghapama

Stuffed fruit and vegetables connect this dish to a wider technique family in the archive.

How did they pronounce this?

Where it is recorded

Yerevan

Communities associated

From evidence or contributor declaration — never assumed from a map.

Armenian

Occasions

New year

Ingredients

Rice

Techniques

Stuffing. Filling vegetables, dumplings, breads, or fruit — a technique that travels widely under many names.

People

Anahit Petrosian

Family stories

Family testimony

Demonstration record

Stories

Pumpkin for the new year

Anahit Petrosian’s ghapama is a pumpkin that has become a bowl. Rice, dried fruit, honey, butter, a little cinnamon. In Yerevan it comes to the new-year table whole, then is opened so the steam stands up like a blessing nobody wants to name too loudly. She bakes lavash the day before, slapped to the tannur wall, thin enough to fold around herbs. The bread is for every day. The pumpkin is for the day the year turns. A Georgian guest once said the stuffing was a cousin of something at home. Anahit said: then sit, and we will see how close.

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Connections

Related dish · Recorded connection
Mahshi kousa
Zucchini stuffed with rice and meat, cooked in a sour-sweet tomato broth. In the Haddad kitchen the sourness leans on tamarind.
Related dish · Recorded connection
Satsivi
A cold walnut sauce, often over poultry, thickened with garlic and spices, finished with pomegranate. A wedding and supra dish in the Tskitishvili records.

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